I don't get what you are saying. Are you saying that this longing is a suffering and burden I must bear for the next 30+ years until it is my turn to die? Or that I have a responsibility to use my time to pursue men to become my husband if I want to alleviate it? (knowing that as we get older, widows outnumber widowers and unmarried men). God has no mercy or grace for a widow seeking to learn how to be content with the life handed to her...it isn't enough that I miss my husband every day but that I just need to accept this horrible emptiness as part of being human?
I get that some level of desire for companionship is human but I am not talking about the type that says "darn, I am lonely and bored tonight" but rather the type that makes a person walk around feeling like a empty ghost of a person...where dying feels like a preferable option because that means being with God..and home... and to never feel a lone again.
(note: I am NOT suicidal. I have kids whose lives would be ruined if I did anything like that and know it...but I can understand why people can get to that point.)
I get that some level of desire for companionship is human but I am not talking about the type that says "darn, I am lonely and bored tonight" but rather the type that makes a person walk around feeling like a empty ghost of a person...where dying feels like a preferable option because that means being with God..and home... and to never feel a lone again.
(note: I am NOT suicidal. I have kids whose lives would be ruined if I did anything like that and know it...but I can understand why people can get to that point.)
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